CREDIT: ZENON TEXEIRA/FAMEFLYNET As a child of the 70s, I was an enormous fan of Muhammad Ali. I remember first seeing the iconic 1968 Esquire cover as a young boy, and wondering what the ‘slings and arrows’ allusion referred to. It later became clearer to me that his courage in the face of resistance was… More »

We were very pleased to revamp St. Charles Vision’s main website in early 2016, bringing it over to WordPress from Expression Engine, and developing a highly-flexible section manager for simple custom page creation. More »

Saw a great article reminding folks to challenge tech claims – A Brief History Of Tech Bulls#1t from Guest blogger Owen Thomas on the mattermark blog: So here’s how to detect bullshit in the business world, the Owen Thomas way: Is a company showing you metrics, figures, or numbers of any kind? Basically, are you… More »

Site security has steadily become a more overt and pressing challenge globally, and WordPress’ rising ubiquity makes it an obvious target for nefarious attempts and exploitation. One of Annunciation’s preferred security tool providers (Wordfence) recently published the below results of a 16-hr audit of attacks to illustrate the scope and volume of these threats:… More »

Good post From the WPLift site about protecting your WordPress site from Bruteforce login attacks. Lots of best practices including changing your Admin username, limiting login attempts, renaming key files, and more. It also details some plugin options for tightening up WP sites. If you run a security monitor or tool that logs unsuccessful login… More »

It’s often said that we’re living in the Digital Age. But even Internet startups use paper. In fact, some research suggests businesses continue to retain 90 percent of their information on paper — paper that is routinely thrown away after just a single use. Annunciation is proud to be somewhat of an exception – we… More »

This interactive map created by Washington Post journalist Radley Balko and the libertarian Cato Institute shows botched paramilitary police raids across the U.S. The map focuses on the use of heavily armed SWAT teams who use forced entry to storm homes unannounced, usually while inhabitants are sleeping. As many as 40,000 of these raids happen… More »

We’re not certain that our ice cream needs augmentation, but the potential applications of AR are tantalizing. For a few years, augmented reality has been a tease in search of a cause. Much like the QR code, there’s been plenty of buzz around the technology, but limited success in terms of creative and strategic deployments. … More »

As a bit of a respite, here’s some of the funniest stuff we’ve seen about the nature of programming, from stilldrinking.org: Remember that stuff about crazy people and bad code? The internet is that except it’s literally a billion times worse. Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained… More »

Really excited to see a new Kickstarter campaign for Dave Gandy, the creator of Font Awesome. In his words: While my plan for Black Tie is to create a commercial icon font (hey, a man’s gotta eat!) I am still very committed to maintaining and improving the original Font Awesome. That’s why I’ve built rewards… More »

We’ve been building almost exclusively with responsive layouts for the past couple of years. This ‘History of Responsive Web Deisgn’ blurb from wikipedia sums up nicely the inevitability of this major shift in web design… More »

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